Will Stern and owners bring down the "Franchise Tag" hammer in the next CBA?

Might as well just cancel all of next season if they go for that.

 

Hell no.

 

besides the fact that baseball is boring (strike, ball, ball, foul, foul, ball) but the yankees, redsox, and braves winning every single year. why the hell would you be a royals fan or pirates fan. stupid in my opinion.

 

Sorry, what do you mean by franchise tag? Seems to me the best solution to the problem as you describe it is to get rid of the max salary limit. Let teams pay whatever it takes to keep their stars.

 

If a player got franchise tagged, wouldn't that guy just go Vince Carter/Tmac on the team?

Jog around, fire up a couple of 3s, pose, look at cheerleaders, get a phantom injury.

 

I wonder what would happen if NBA players would resist the urge to spend their money like idiots instead of living paycheck-to-paycheck. You'd have to think they'd have a lot more negotiating power.

 

I've mentioned this multiple times, in multiple threads. Yes, the NBA needs a franchise tag, and the public will overwhelmingly support it.

 

Because those few players are the face of basketball and have the most power. There is no NBA without the Kobes, LeBrons, and Melos, etc.

 

That won't prevent star players from leaving for bigger markets. Lebron and Bosh took pay cuts to go to Miami.

 

I think it will be difficult, but worth a shot. I don't know why a fan wouldn't support it. Are you just looking out for the multi-millionaires?

 

The league has to do something to keep stars out of craplands to franchises lead by robber barons like the one in OKC.

I am essentially pointing out how ridiculous the thread is, the tremendous overration. What happened this offseason almost never happens. Players rarely take less money to play elsewhere. The best player under 25 just resigned to play in Oklahoma. Finally, this whole thing has created the most NBA buzz in years.

Allowing owners to steal teams from cities who won't put up their taxpayers money to entirely fund new arenas is something far more damaging to PR and decency, yet Stern and Co don't stop that. The NBA and players union are not going to shut down FA--the most they can do is stilt contracts a little more towards the home team.

 

So . . basically
Support Billionaire over Millionaires?

allow teams to pay whatever is not a solution
unless you going to pay 100$ for the nosebleed section

Rocket River

 

After reading the whole thread, I still don't know what you mean by a Franchise Tag or how it would work. Do you mean the team would designate a player (or a couple of players) as franchise players and they wouldn't be allowed to switch teams in free agency?

If that's what you mean, I don't see anybody going for it. Obviously, the tier 1 players will oppose it. Lesser players will also oppose it because (1) they still hope to be tier 1 players and (2) it is obviously inherently unfair to curtail a person's right to choose his employment at the whim of his current employer (who drafted him, no less). I don't see the public (or Congress) being happy about that unfairness either.

 

This is stupid, the franchise tag in the NFL can only be used 2 years consectively on a single player. would be delaying the inevitable.

secondly, the franchise tag is basically used to get a player signed when contract negotiations are going no where. its not to keep a player against his will.

and I'm not sure if you can use it against an unrestricted free agent

I can't believe people's overreaction to this guy going to another team. get a grip folks

 

Well the way it works in the NFL is that any UFA can be designated as the franchise player by the original team, then (if using the exclusive tag, which is clearly what OP is going after here) he cannot negotiate with any other team, and is guaranteed a 1 year deal at the average of the top 5 salaries at that position (in the NBA this would surely be a max salary). Now, in the NFL contracts are not guaranteed fully, but still players hate this enough to stage holdouts if a team is using it (another thing which NBA teams almost never see) and I remember some players end their holdouts with the agreement that their team never use the franchise tag on them again.

I'd imagine that since the "fully guaranteed" part of the deal is already in the NBA, if players are franchised against their will, they may well end up holding out. That's a part of the NFL that the NBA could definitely do without especially since it has enough publicity and image problems already.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchise_tag

 

You do know this already happens in the NFL, right?

 

Really, all they need to do is ban S&T deals that are for above MLE money or above 3 years. Kill the loophole.

 

It doesn't have to be exactly like the NFL version. We can't have NBA players conspiring to create three or four super teams, while the rest of the league becomes nothing more than a glorified farm system.